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Rhomobile adds Android 2.0 support to its Rhodes smartphone app framework

Categories: Android, Developer
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 1:13 AM

Rhomobile adds Android 2.0 support

Rhomobile announced that its Rhodes smartphone app framework now supports Android 2.0, allowing interested companies to utilize their HTML and Ruby skills and create native applications for the Android platform. As a result, using the company’s RhoHub, development costs can be reduced by up to five times.

Among the RhoHub features we highlight:

  • Support for multiple platforms — including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android
  • Developers can write apps in HTML and simultaneously build for all smartphones
  • Generate UIs and sync source adapters from a high level object description
  • Collaborate with other users by sharing projects
  • Hosting of synchronization server for backend app integration and availability of offline data

As for the availability information, RhoHub comes in three “flavors”: the Free tier is for public apps with 3-runtime users and 50MB disk space; the Basic service allows for 3 private apps, 3 private collaborators with 100-runtime users and 2GB disk space; and RhoHub’s Premium service which offers 100 private apps, 100 private collaborators with 1000-runtime users and 20GB disk space… Additional information is available from Rhomobile’s website.

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.